Apparatus foe steaming dyed fabrics



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APPARATUS FOR STEAMING DYBD FABRICS. No. 318,205.

III! l WTNESSES:

M' I /Mma UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

EUGENE BAU, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

APPARATUS FOR STEAMING DYED FABRlCS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 318,205, dated May 19, 1885.

Application filed March 11, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EUGENE BAU, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Steaming Dyed Fabrics, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

rIhe object of my invention is to provide a new and improved apparatus for steaming dyed fabrics in such a manner that they will not become striped or spotted by being steamed.

The invention consists in the combination, with a boiler or steam-vessel, of a car or frame adapted to pass into the same, which car or frame carries a series of rods or bars, from which the fabrics to be steamed are suspended, which rods are combined with devices for revolving them, the said devices being` adapted to be operated from the outside of the boiler, all as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

Figure l is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved apparatus for steaming dyed fabrics. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional elcvation of the same on the broken line x :r .fr at, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the car.

A horizontal boiler, A, is provided at one end with a door, B, and with a steam-inlet pipe, O, and a steam-outlet pipe, D.

On cross-bars E, on the bottom of the boiler, tracks E are arranged, which are in line with tracks F. Outside of the open end of the boiler hinged pieces f connect the tracks F F. On the tracks E F the wheels of a carriage, G, run, which consists of an iron frame provided with one or two middle cross-bars, J, and with end cross-bars, K, raised about three feet above the bottom of the frame and supported by suitable standards.

In the cross-bars J four, or more or less, short shafts, L, parallel with the longitudinal axis of the car, are journaled, which shafts have squared ends.

Between` the bars J a worm -wheel, II, is rigidly mounted on each short shaft L, which worm-wheels engage with worms M on a shaft, N, journaled in the frame of the car (No model.)

above and parallel with the bars J, which shaft projects from the side of the car, and is provided on its end with a cross-piece, O.

The cloth is suspended from square, hexagonal, or octagonal rods or bars P, each provided at one end with a projecting pivot, Q, and at the opposite end with a squared socket or recess, It, for receiving the squared ends 6cof the shafts L. The end cross pieces or bars, K, are provided on the upper ends with notches I, for receiving the end pivot-s, Q. A short shaft, S, is journaled onthe side of the boiler, which shaft is provided on the outer end with a crank-handle, T, or other device for turning it, and on its inner end with a fork, V, for receiving the cross-piece O in the end ofthe shaft N. The shaft S is so arranged that when the car is run into the boiler the 7o cross-piece O will pass into the fork V.

The operation is as follows: rlhe dyed cloth, in banks, is hung on the rods or bars l?, and when the car is filled it is run into the boiler A, the door Bis closed, and steam is admitcrank-handle T is turned, the shaft N is revolved and revolves the several worm-wheels H, which in turn revolve rods or bars P, on which the goods are hung.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 9o In an apparatus for steaming dyed fabrics, the combination, with the boiler orsteam-vessel A, of the car G, the cross-bars J K, the shaft N, the worms M, the worm-wheels H, the

short shafts L, having squared ends, the rods P, having eac-h a socket, It, in one end and a pivot, Q, on the opposite end, and a shaft, S, pivoted in the side of the boiler A, and provided with a fork,V, on its inner end, substantially as herein shown and described.

EUGENE EAU. Vitnesses:

C. SEDewrcK, E. M. CLARK.

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